T Quotes
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“The history of man is simply the history of slavery, of injustice and brutality, together with the means by which he has, through the dead and desolate years, slowly and painfully advanced. He has been the sport and prey of priest and king, the food of superstition and cruel might. Crowned force has governed ignorance through fear. Hypocrisy and tyranny—two vultures—have fed upon the liberties of man. From all these there has been, and is, but one means of escape—intellectual development. Upon the back of industry has been the whip. Upon the brain have been the fetters of superstition. Nothing has been left undone by the enemies of freedom. Every art and artifice, every cruelty and outrage has been practiced and perpetrated to destroy the rights of man. In this great struggle every crime has been rewarded and every virtue has been punished. Reading, writing, thinking and investigating have all been crimes.
Every science has been an outcast.
All the altars and all the thrones united to arrest the forward march of the human race. The king said that mankind must not work for themselves. The priest said that mankind must not think for themselves. One forged chains for the hands, the other for the soul. Under this infamous regime the eagle of the human intellect was for ages a slimy serpent of hypocrisy.
The human race was imprisoned. Through some of the prison bars came a few struggling rays of light. Against these bars Science pressed its pale and thoughtful face, wooed by the holy dawn of human advancement. Bar after bar was broken away. A few grand men escaped and devoted their lives to the liberation of their fellows.”
Source: The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child
“The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.”
“The history of man so far is nothing to brag about, from the standpoint of our ideas - and what I mean is, that in comparison with most other societies, our present-day American society has achieved things which are remarkable: material wealth, greater than for any other nation; a relative freedom from oppression; a relative mobility; a spreading of art, of music, of thought, which is also rather unique.”
“The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of.”
“The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself that you don't know is what your personal unconscious is made out of.”
“The history of mankind for the last four centuries is rather like that of an imprisoned sleeper, stirring clumsily and uneasily while the prison that restrains and shelters him catches fire, not waking but incorporating the crackling and warmth of the fire with ancient and incongruous dreams, than like that of a man consciously awake to danger and opportunity.”
Source: A Short History of the World
“The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman.”
“The history of mankind is a history of the subjugation and exploitation of a great majority of people by an elite few by what has been appropriately termed the 'ruling class'. The ruling class has many manifestations. It can take the form of a religious orthodoxy, a monarchy, a dictatorship of the proletariat, outright fascism, or, in the case of the United States, corporate statism. In each instance the ruling class relies on academics, scholars and 'experts' to legitimize and provide moral authority for its hegemony over the masses.”
“The history of mankind is a history of war.”
“The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.”
“The history of mankind is a romance, a mask, a tragedy, constructed upon the principles of POETICAL JUSTICE; it is a noble or royal hunt, in which what is sport to the few is death to the many, and in which the spectators halloo and encourage the strong to set upon the weak, and cry havoc in the chase, though they do not share in the spoil.”
Source: The Miscellaneous Works
“The history of mankind is his character.”
“The history of mankind is little else than a narrative of designs which have failed and hopes that have been disappointed.”
Source: The works of Samuel Johnson
“The history of mankind is the history of ideas.”
Source: Theory and History
“The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, theories, and doctrines that guide human action, determine the ultimate ends men aim at, and the choice of the means employed for the attainment of these ends.”
Source: Planned Chaos
“The history of mankind is the history of money losing value.”
“The history of mankind is the history of our misunderstandings with god, for he doesn't understand us, and we don't understand him.”
“The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.”
Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks
“The history of mankind," said Dreed, "has been a history of betrayals, the perennial betrayal of the common man by the men he has trusted."
"By the men the lazy, haphazard, childish oaf was too wilfully stupid to mistrust," said Bodisham. "The history of mankind from the very beginning has been a history of over-trusted trustees, corrupted by their unchecked opportunities.”
Source: The Holy Terror
“The history of mankind will probably show that no people has ever risen above its religion, and man's spiritual history will positively demonstrate that no religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.”
Source: The Knowledge of the Holy
“The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family.”
“The history of mankind, the history of salvation, passes by way of the family... The family is placed at the center of the great struggle between good and evil, between life and death, between love and all that is opposed to love.”
“The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult
problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were
impossible.”
“The history of mathematics, lacking the guidance of philosophy, [is] blind, while the philosophy of mathematics, turning its back on the most intriguing phenomena in the history of mathematics, is empty.”
Source: Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery
“The history of media is the market share of advertising dollars has followed.. albeit with a lag.”
“The history of medicine is the history of the unusual.”
“The history of medicine proves that in so far as man seeks to know himself and face his whole nature, he has become free from bewildered fear, despondent shame, or arrant hypocrisy. As long as sex is dealt with in the current confusion of ignorance and sophistication, denial and indulgence, suppression and stimulation, punishment and exploitation, secrecy and display, it will be associated with a duplicity and indecency that lead neither to intellectual honesty nor human dignity.”
“the history of melancholia includes all of us.”
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
“The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his principle of constructing a lighthouse, by noticing the trunk of a tree to be diminished from a curve to a cyclinder ... and Newton, turning an old box into a water-clock, or the yard of a house into a sundial, are examples of those habits of patient observation which scientific biography attractively recommends.”
“The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)
“The history of missions is a history of prayer. Everything vital to the success of the world's evangelization hinges on prayer.”
Source: The Evangelization of the World in this Generation
“The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.”
“The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. From Pentecost to the Haystack meeting in New England and from the days when Robert Morrison landed in China to the martyrdom of John and Betty Stam, prayer has been the source of power and the secret of spiritual triumph.”
“The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. It is the key to the whole mission problem. All human means are secondary.”
“The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.”
“The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.”
“The history of modern nutritionism has been a history of macronutrients at war: protein against carbs; carbs against proteins, and then fats; fats against carbs.”
Source: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
“The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.”
“The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.”
“The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats.”
“The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.”
Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete
“The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives.”
“The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.”
“The history of Napoleon now becomes, for 12 momentous years, the history of mankind.”
“The history of nations shows that words are not always immediately followed by action.”
“The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.”
“The history of one is the history of all.”
Source: Balcony Stories
“The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States.”
“The history of our civilization has been one of intermittent war.”